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The Times 40 Best Books of the Century: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/best-books-21st-century-ranked-f98wbvdk9
22 classics to read in 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?vzzubPftOsLE
Books discussed and purchase links:
The sun also rises – Ernest Hemingway
https://tidd.ly/3CbPa3S
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
https://tidd.ly/3QuSbjQ
Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
https://tidd.ly/3w6WYjr
Lady Chatterley's Lover – DH Lawrence
https://tidd.ly/3AhcIjK
Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
https://tidd.ly/3zZvldd
The Rye Catcher – JD Salinger
https://tidd.ly/3CaIO4C
Whatever – Edward St Aubyn
https://tidd.ly/3QL0YOj
Half a yellow sun – Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
https://tidd.ly/3bqcIqv
The Death of the Heart – Elizabeth Bowen
https://tidd.ly/3JZ7jUj
Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout
https://tidd.ly/38BFEKL
The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
https://tidd.ly/3A1Du0C
Power and Glory – Graham Greene
https://tidd.ly/3AoFz8k
The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
https://tidd.ly/3pl363B
Wolf Room – Hilary Mantel
https://tidd.ly/3wNu9rn
The Bell – Sylvia Plath
https://tidd.ly/3QJf4jp
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
https://tidd.ly/3Qvp93y
Atonement – Ian McEwan
https://tidd.ly/3w7TvAZ
A house for Mr. Biswas – VS Naipaul
https://tidd.ly/3AppeQP
The Blue Flower – Penelope Fitzgerald
https://tidd.ly/3jSqVxi
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
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Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
https://tidd.ly/3CeyatP
Shame – JM Coetzee
https://tidd.ly/3PrbgSP
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
https://tidd.ly/38Zb7Xz
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
https://tidd.ly/357SJcC
The remains of the day – Kazuo Ishiguro
https://tidd.ly/3MxAtKy
Never let me go – Kazuo Ishiguro
https://tidd.ly/3dnGxIU
Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson
https://tidd.ly/3SSgOsi
A passage to India – EM Forster
https://tidd.ly/3pmwSFf
The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
https://tidd.ly/3zYauH5
Giovanni's Room – James Baldwin
https://tidd.ly/3AmeO4u
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
https://tidd.ly/3reHXXm
Things are falling apart – Chinua Achebe
https://tidd.ly/3QK3dBA
1984 – George Orwell
https://tidd.ly/3QO5yvu
At the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
https://tidd.ly/3QKEehn
Lolita-Vladimir Nabokov
https://tidd.ly/3Qrmrwc
Beloved – Toni Morrison
https://tidd.ly/3bSi4LH
Miss Jean Brodie's Prime Minister – Muriel Spark
https://tidd.ly/3Qujafl
Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie
https://tidd.ly/3polHfc
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
https://tidd.ly/3k7aIDt
The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
https://tidd.ly/3k3ZhMR
My reviews of some of these books:
Lady Chatterley's Lover – DH Lawrence
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2021/10/6/lady-chatterleys-lover-by-dh-lawrence-1
Wolf Room – Hilary Mantel
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2020/2/28/wolf-hall-by-hilary-mantel
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2014/6/23/lord-of-the-flies-by-william-golding
The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2019/8/28/the-handmaids-tale-by-margaret-atwood
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2016/9/14/wide-sargasso-sea-by-jean-rhys
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